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__Who said our women cannot do the “impossible”!? On Friday (9th February) at 12 noon (Nigeria time) up to 1bn people around the world are expected to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. A record number of African athletes will compete, and for Continue Reading →

__Teach the habit of being informed, and it will remain with your child for life… It is also entrepreneurship training of the highest order! When I was a young boy growing up as an exile in Zambia, we only had one government-owned TV channel on our black and white TV. Continue Reading →

__Preparing your children for a future as entrepreneurs and job creators. I have told you before how my mother encouraged my entrepreneurial zeal when I was a child. She did so many things that I marvel at as I look back, more than 50 years later. She encouraged me to Continue Reading →

Join the conversation with special guest James Mwangi, Shivani Siroya, Kamal Bhattacharya and myself at the Tech and Entrepreneurship Town Hall hosted by the Pathways for Prosperity Commission & Kwesé INC in Nairobi Kenya.

__One town hall, one pitch, one partnership at a time! Tune in Friday at 2:15 pm (EAT). What a great day. I just finished an evening meeting here in Nairobi with the 12 Kwesé Inc #GoGettaz finalists who are pitching tomorrow afternoon. Before the big day, I just wanted to mention one Continue Reading →

__”Let’s get the show on the road!” This Friday in Nairobi is finally the big day! Yes, they’re almost in the elevator… For over a year now, I’ve been talking about choosing two entrepreneurs (one woman and one man) to come work along side me and our #Kwesé team for two weeks Continue Reading →

__Take part in an original Kwesé Inc production! Every type of business has a “raw material.” The better the raw material, the better the output. What is the “raw material” of your own business? Content is the “raw material” of the broadcasting business. When you set up a broadcast business, Continue Reading →

__#SalutingAfricanEntrepreneurs! The other day someone on my team sent me an article about some young entrepreneurs from Somalia who started an online shopping business called Muraadso. The story was on BBC. There were four things that caught my attention: #1. What a mindset! I have often said, as an African Continue Reading →

__Keep your eyes open. There is something going on! My first contact with mobile telephony was actually at university in the early 1980s in a telecommunications class. At that time there were small systems operating in the US. I had one question on my mind: Why can’t we introduce this Continue Reading →

__Future entrepreneurial opportunities that are now… A few months ago the British government announced that it will ban “combustion engine vehicles” from the UK roads in 2040. That means they will not allow vehicles which use petrol or diesel on the roads! # All cars will either have to be Continue Reading →

__Are you following tracks or creating new ones? When I was in the US recently, I decided to drop in and visit one of our key partners, a company called Roku. This company supplies the specialized decoder for Kwesé Play that allows us to digitally “stream” all our Kwesé TV Continue Reading →

Imagine living in a world where you have a mobile phone, a device that connects you to family, friends, work etc, but no way of charging the battery? Two-thirds of the 1.2 billion people around the world living without energy are within mobile network coverage. Mats Granryd, Director General of Continue Reading →

The mobile industry is playing a crucial role in striving towards Sustainable Development Goal 7: universal energy access by 2030. It is providing new pathways to address the urgent needs of the 1.2 billion people who still live without energy, a condition seriously hindering their economic and social development. For Continue Reading →

__Super Eagles! Africa’s first team to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup™ Kwesé Sports as an official broadcaster of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ congratulates Nigeria on its qualification this weekend! The countdown continues (247 days till opening match!) We can’t wait for the games to begin! Kwesé Sports Continue Reading →

__Asking new questions and listening to voices yet unheard… What is the biggest development challenge your own nation will face in the next 20 years, and what are you doing about it NOW? Let’s talk! As I mentioned in my last post, I was recently invited by Melinda Gates (co-founder Continue Reading →

__Your time, your content, your choice… #BeyondTV ! I’ve written here before about identifying a human need and then working to solve it with your own entrepreneurship and innovation. Sometimes you may also identify a “human want,” for example, to have more choice, convenience, speed, better prices, and a greater selection of Continue Reading →

__”Start where you are!” Today both my wife and I had the pleasure and honor to speak at the African Philanthropy Forum in Johannesburg hosted by Kwesé and NBA Cares. I told you last week to remember that basketball is not just a game, it’s business. Today you would have Continue Reading →

__”When did you first see the opportunity?” When I first started Econet Wireless, I travelled to South Africa to meet the senior leadership of one of the leading mobile network companies. I was looking for investment into our business. I did the customary pitch and offered them 40% of my Continue Reading →

__The clock is ticking… are you ready? During the Transform Africa gathering in Kigali a few weeks ago, I took part in an event in which some really, really smart young entrepreneurs were pitching to a group of investors to take equity stakes in their businesses. The show was called Continue Reading →

__Shhh! Don’t be an amateur! Many years ago I was on a flight, and sitting there I listened to two guys in front of me speaking in hushed tones. As I listened carefully, I realized they were from a competitor company discussing a very interesting opportunity that I had not Continue Reading →

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About Strive Masiyiwa

MR STRIVE MASIYIWA (b 1961) has been in business since 1986. He first came to international prominence when he fought a landmark constitutional legal battle for 5 years in the African country of Zimbabwe. The ruling which led to the removal of the monopoly of the state in telecommunications is generally regarded as one of the key milestones, in opening the African telecommunications sector to private capital. Read More>>